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A YouTube video that spawned protests across the Muslim world goes back under the spotlight Monday, at the center of an intense legal fight between an actress and an array of Internet and media companies.

Months after the Supreme Court chiseled away at patent protections for software, Google Inc. and other companies now want the justice to set limits on how software makers can use copyrights to assert exclusive rights over programs.

A federal jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay about $7.4 million to the family of Marvin Gaye, after finding the duo’s 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” copied parts of Mr. Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”

The Supreme Court last year pared back patent protections for software. Now Google and other companies want the court to limit how software makers can use copyrights to assert exclusive rights over programs.

The European Union is weighing an overhaul of its telecom rules that could give incumbent operators like Germany’s Deutsche Telekom an edge over upstart challengers like Iliad of France and messaging service WhatsApp Inc.

Time's run out for one of EU Commissioner Michel Barnier's dossiers: Overhauling EU copyright law. Real Time Brussels has the white paper, which shows the issues the next commission will have to consider in this thorny matter.

The Supreme Court ruled a copyright holder for a 1963 screenplay can pursue infringement claims against the studio that continues to market the acclaimed 1980 movie allegedly derived from it, "Raging Bull."

Arista Networks gave only a short response Friday when Cisco Systems filed patent and copyright infringement charges against the upstart network equipment maker. Now an Arista board member has fired back with some pointed comments.

The owner of recordings by Hot Tuna, New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Flying Burrito Brothers filed lawsuits Thursday against several online music service operators including Apple, Google and Sony for using songs recorded before 1972 without permission.